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Sometimes the apple falls far from the tree. So far, in fact, that the apple may forget where it came from and tries to convince everyone it’s an orange. Alveda King, the niece of Martin Luther King, Jr., voted for and continues to support Donald Trump. This revelation came out after King was asked about the […]

Rep. John Lewis is the latest target of President-elect Trump’s Twitter wrath after calling out his legitimacy as commander-in-chief. Now that the dust has settled, it looks like Lewis’ legacy as a Civil Rights icon is still firmly in place, if not stronger, following his public scuffle with America’s next president. 

To date, President-Elect Donald Trump’s interaction with Black people has been mostly limited to making vague promises from the safety of rooms full of white faces, painting inner cities as urban dystopias and posing for a few pictures with a couple black celebrities. Kanye West came under harsh scrutiny for meeting with Trump shortly after being […]

Unfortunately, we should now accept that Donald Trump will be President of the United States come January 20, 2017 (over a month later I’m still experiencing some disbelief in this truth). But what I won’t accept are his disingenuous attempts to be inclusive and to work for Black people.

A still-growing list of performers have backed out of or completely rejected invitations to appear at President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration on January 20th. Many of them have cited personal conflict given his proven history of supporting racism, sexism and other forms of oppression. However, Rebecca Ferguson, a British singer and X-Factor alum, has taken a new […]

President Obama is on his way out of his second term. Now, he’s coming home to say goodbye. On January 10th, President Obama will give a farewell address from Chicago to recount the successes of his administration and offer remarks regarding how the United States can move into the future. The President is set to give his remarks […]

In less than a month, the first Black president of the United States will complete his final term. Undoubtedly, these past eight years under President Barack Obama provided a very powerful sense of representation to Black people who have survived over four centuries of violent dispossession largely in society’s shadows. With Obama occupying the highest […]

The history of racism in golf clubs is a long and rich one – just watch The Legend of Bagger Vance to get an idea of how unwelcome people of color were. Many of the sports founding fathers were outwardly racist (and sexist) and the culture surrounding it didn’t transform for quite a while. So it must […]

During the initial chaos following President-elect Donald Trump’s victory in November, no one quite knew who to blame. So the finger was eventually pointed at everyone from black voters to third party voters to white female voters. As time went on, people eventually focused less on the “How?” and more on the “So, what now?” […]

This article was originally posted at Water Cooler Convos and has been reposted with permisson.   White people’s shock bores me. It’s that kind of bored that makes me just want to change the channel on whiteness and look for better programming. I’m tired of the stressed out, anxious, hypertensive, frenetic whiteness that has been bubbling […]

As a Black person in Trump’s America, it can be enticing to assume the persistence of white violence is due only to the continued ignorance and miseducation of the people who enact it. The solution is so much easier to embrace if the problem is just that white people don’t know any better. This is […]

Kanye West shocked fans last month when he declared his loyalty to President-elect Donald Trump on stage during his Saint Pablo Tour. He would later be hospitalized citing exhaustion, which many viewed as a sign that he was in the middle of a concerning downward spiral into depression and paranoia. After being released from the […]